Cognitive Vision

The integration of AI and vision has been a longterm goal of both disciplines for more than three decades. This special issue illustrates some recent work on bridging the gap. Back then, the issue was anticipated relatively easily, and a full integration of the two fields was expected within a decade. Processing of images is known to result in noisy segmentation, and in general, data might not be consistent in space or time, making AI methods appealing. In early AI, the handling of noisy, partially inconsistent data was, at best, a major challenge.